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How to offer a “Share on Facebook” option under (wordpress.com) blog posts

Post update: 07 July, 2010
You can add the “Share on Facebook” button in a wordpress.com blog post in an even simpler method than the one described in this post. :D
Read the following tutorial:How to add a “Share on Facebook” button in a wordpress.com blog post in ONE clickFACEBOOK is one of the most hip and happening social networking sites out there. If you are a blogger and if you are serious about blog promotion, then sharing your posts in Facebook is a good idea. So how do we offer “Share on Facebook” under blog posts?

That’s easy (provided you use Firefox). And the solution will work for any blogging platform (and even wordpress.com) that will allow you to paste a bit of Html code. :D

Ready for the tutorial? Good! You will need to click on the following link.

View a published post in Firefox. Make sure you see the permalink of the post in the adress bar, and not the blog url.

Now click the Share on Facebook bookmarklet. A new url will be generated in the address bar. This is the url that you will need.

Copy the url from the address bar. (The url automatically turns into the “log-in” url of Facebook, which is useless for this project and so please log in to your Facebook account before pressing the bookmarklet!)

Go to the admin area of your blog post and link the url to a Facebook icon or the words “Share on Facebook”.

Save changes and view the post.

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I visited the diy forums (see the trackback just above) and figured that the solutions provided are completely unsuitable for wordpress-dot-com users, since they don’t have access to php files. The solution provided in this post is the only solution I know of that works for wordpresscom. It is not at all complicated once you get the hang of it.

The Word document linked to in the instructions crashed my browser on opening. I guess the coding in the document was understood by Avast! as a threat and it shut down the downloader – and firefox as well. Caveat emptor.

Perlita labs has a code maker that makes the code for each page. You just paste the code into the page itself, and bingo!

this was a really quality post. In theory Iâ€™d like to write like this also â€“ taking time and real effort to make a good article. Really what I needed. Thanks I have been looking for this sort of info for a long time.

The admin area is your cock pit. When you are logged in to your blog, you will find your post admin part when you click a post title and press a link that says “Edit”.
This is the url where you will find the image:

It is supposed to work in wordpress.COM blogs. If yours is one then I need more info before I can help. Exactly where are you stuck? Were you able to add the bookmarklet in your browser? Were you able to launch the button using the bookmarklet? Etc etc…

I was able to add the bookmarklet in my browser, and it worked. Everything works as advertised until I try to post it to Facebook. It shows the share button and everything, but the loading icon for the thumbnails never stops loading, and it won’t allow me to share until it finishes.